Quotes About Trust

Brodie Bruce: You're gonna listen to me? To something I said!? Jesus, man, haven't I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit? I mean half the time I'm just talking out of my ass...or sticking my hand in it.

Kevin Wignall

aside, Dan kept the gun

there was no truth that couldn't be told.

What do you think I'm going to do? she asked him. Whatever it is, he answered, I think you'll be terrified when it happens. Don't let that stop you.

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. For you, he said. I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

He stopped, turned. He cupped his hands around his mouth. ''For you a thousand times over!'' he said. Then he smiled his Hassan smile and disappeared around the corner.

It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn't look forced. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

I said to you, Hold my hand. Nothing bad will happen. These are only words. A father's tricks, It slays your father, your faith in him. Because all I can think tonight is how deep the sea, and how vast, how indifferent. How powerless I am to protect you from it. All I can do is pray.

When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

For you, a thousand times over" ? Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you. Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.

You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a littele

God Has a reason

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

Tariq snapped the magazine back into his handgun. Do you have it in you? Laila said. To what? To use this thing. To kill with it. Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. For you, he said. I'd kill with it for you, Laila.

When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.